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Tourist Information
Pesaro stands on the alluvial coastal plain of the Adriatic, at the mouth of the River Foglia, between the hills of Colle Ardizio to the south east and Colle San Bartolo to the north west. The area has been inhabited since the 6th Century BC, when there was a harbour at the mouth of the Pisaurus, (now called the River Foglia). Later the Roman colony of Pisaurum was established here by Quintus Fabius Nobilior (184 BC). The walls were completed a decade later, in 174 BC. These were rectangular in layout, following the lines of the grid-like street plan, which can still be seen in the route taken by the streets of Via San Francesco-Corso XI Settembre and Via Branca-Via Rossini
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